Colon Cleaner

Here's a quick-and-dirty bash snippet that recursively locates all files ending with the .npy extension, and then replaces occurrences of a colon(:) with a dash (-) in their filename . For reference:

find ./ -depth -type f -name '*.npy' \
    -exec bash -c 'mv "$0" "${0//:/-}"' {} \;

If you'd like, you could run the following to create a sandbox for testing:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Create time stamp

timestamp=$(date +"%H:%M:%S")

# Create three (3) dummy directories with two-hundred (200) files in each. A file will take this form: 
dummy-data-000:20:12:00.npy

mkdir -pv data{0..2} && touch data{0..2}/dummy-data-{0..1}{0..9}{0..9}:"$timestamp".npy

Cheers.